SAN DIEGO – Climate change-related risks are a growing area of exposure for directors and officers and their insurers, panelists said at the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s 35th annual conference last month.
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1National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, São José dos Campos, Brazil
2Graduate Program in Natural Disasters, UNESP/CEMADEN, State University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil
3State of São Paulo Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, São Paulo, Brazil
4CPTEC/INPE-Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies/National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil
5Paula Souza State Technological Education Center, São Paulo, Brazil
The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world s largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal has suffered a prolonged drought that has spelled disaster for the region, and subsequent fires have engulfed hundreds of thousands of hectares. The lack of rainfall during the summers of 2019 and 2020 was caused by reduced transport of warm and humid summer air from Amazonia into the Pantanal. Instead, a predominance of warmer and drier air masses from subtropical latitudes contributed to a
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The Industrial Relations Case (IRC) in Blantyre was on Tuesday forced to adjourn a case in which eight employees that were abruptly fired by Vale Logistics of Brazil dragged their employer to the court for alleged unfair dismissals.
Vale Logistics of Brazil constructing a US$1billion (K750billion) trans-Malawi railway project that connects two pivotal points of its operations in Western and Eastern Mozambique through Malawi.
Lawyer representing the eight, but are now seven after one of them died, did not show up at the court and was reportedly in self-isolation after he got in contact with a person who tested positive to Covid-19, according to Christopher Chiumia, a representative of the complainants.